Jose Padilha will write and direct the true life Colombian prison drama "Marching Powder" for Crescendo Prods., Plan B, Periscope Entertainment and Good Worldwide says Variety.

Don Cheadle will produce intends to play Thomas McFadden, a British drug trafficker who was arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison.

During his six-year stretch, McFadden served as a tour guide in a prison that thrived under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.